Historical literature

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James, C.L.R. The Black Jacobins: Toussaint L'Ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution. Secker & Warburg, 1938, ch. 5.

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Themistocles. Quoted in "Themistocles." Parallel Lives by Plutarch. c. 2nd century BC, ch. 2, sect. 3.

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Themistocles. Quoted in "Themistocles." Parallel Lives by Plutarch. Oxford University Press, 2009, ch. 2, sect. 3.

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Orwell, George. "Looking Back on the Spanish War." New Road, June 1943, pt. 4.

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Orwell, George. "Looking Back on the Spanish War." The Collected Essays, Journalism And Letters Of George Orwell, vol. 2: My Country Right or Left 1940-1943, edited by Sonia Orwell and Ian Angus. David R. Godine, 2007, no. 41, pt. 4.

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Mantel, Hilary. Bring Up the Bodies. Fourth Estate/Henry Holt and Co., 2012.

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Drake, Francis. Dispatch to Francis Walsingham. 17 May 1587, Francis Drake's ship, Iberian coasts between Lisbon and Cape St. Vincent. Dispatch.

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Madame Roland. Last words before her execution by guillotine. 8 Nov. 1793, Paris, France.

Whoever would lie usefully should lie seldom.

Lord Hervey

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Lord Hervey. Memoirs of the Reign of George II, edited by J. W. Croker. London: John Murray, 1848.

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Gibbon, Edward. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. Vol. 4, London: Strahan & Cadell, 1788, ch. 38.

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Gibbon, Edward. The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire: Volumes 1-6. Vol. 4. Everyman's Library, 2010, ch. 38.

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Gibbon, Edward. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. Vol. 1, London: Strahan & Cadell, 1776, ch. 2.

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Gibbon, Edward. The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire: Volumes 1-6. Vol. 1. Everyman's Library, 2010, ch. 2.

Is the dwelling place of God anywhere but in the earth and sea, the air and sky, and virtue? Why seek we further for deities? Whatever you see, whatever you touch, that is Jupiter.

Lucan

Pharsalia

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Lucan. Pharsalia, or De Bello Civili. c. 65, bk. 9, l. 578-580.

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Lucan. Civil War, translated by Matthew Fox. Penguin Classics, 2012, bk. 9, l. 578-580.

Hope has never trickled down. It has always sprung up.

Studs Terkel

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Terkel, Studs. Hope Dies Last: Keeping the Faith in Difficult Times. New Press, 2003.

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Schumpeter, Joseph Alois. Capitalism, Socialism, and Democracy. Harper & Brothers, 1942, pt. 1, ch. 1.

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Schumpeter, Joseph. Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy. Harper & Brothers, 1942, pt. 1, ch. 1.

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Mumford, Lewis. The Brown Decades: A Study of the Arts in America. Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1931.

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Trevelyan, George Macaulay. English Social History: A Survey of Six Centuries Chaucer to Queen Victoria. Longmans, Green and Company, 1942, introduction.

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Lecky, William Edward Hartpole. History of European Morals: From Augustus to Charlemagn. Vol. 1, London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1869, ch. 1.

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Momaday, Navarre Scott. The Way to Rainy Mountain. University of New Mexico Press, 1969, introduction. Originally appeared in The Reporter, 26 Jan. 1967.

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Kuhn, Thomas S. The Structure of Scientific Revolutions. University of Chicago Press, 1962, ch. 9.

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Levi, Primo. I sommersi e i salvati [The Drowned and the Saved]. Einaudi, 1986, preface.

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Levi, Primo. The Drowned and the Saved, translated by Raymond Rosenthal. Simon & Schuster, 2017, preface.